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Exploiting a series of portages linking Lake Michigan and local rivers, they paddled their canoes from Canada’s Atlantic shore to the Gulf of Mexico and as far west as the Rocky Mountains.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

The closure includes all land, water, trails, portages, campsites, canoe routes and wilderness entry points and is in place until Aug. 27.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2021

From life at sea, he had acquired the habit of rising early; from the rivers and countless portages, the conviction that one does not own what one cannot carry.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2018

There was one industry that the new city would excel in, which did not require ships, portages, or much labor at all.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 19, 2017

“The frequent bad rapids making so many portages necessary. Our position every day grows more serious; the food supply less.”

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple